San Diego aircraft crash Spark's fires, leaves the 'gigantic rubble field'

San Diego, California – – – A private jet that flies into dense fog fell into a quarter in San Diego in the early Thursday morning, killed at least three and triggered intensive flames that violated several houses, dozens of vehicles violated and forced almost 100 people to evacuate.

The only people who are known that they died during the crash were on board the aircraft, which, according to federal civil servants, apparently seemed to have made power supply lines.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed on Thursday afternoon that six people were on board the aircraft. At an earlier press conference, the deputy head of the fire brigade rescue department of San Diego, Dan Eddy, said that he did not think that residents of the plane have survived.

A spokesman for the Sound Talent Group, a music agency in San Diego County, confirmed to the time that the company lost three employees, including Dave Shapiro, co -founder of the group. The other employees were not named.

“We are destroyed by the loss of our co -founder, colleagues and friends,” says a company declaration. “Our hearts go to their families and everyone who is affected by today's tragedy. Thank you for respecting your privacy at that time.”

The Cessna 550 Jet, which can be accommodated up to 10 people, was registered with Daviator LLC, a company based in Homer, Alaska, according to FAA Records. The company's registered agent, Shapiro, is a certified flight instructor and air traffic pilots.

According to Eddy, Business Jet fell in a military shared apartment in the Murphy Canyon area shortly before Thursday at 4 a.m. However, officials have not yet said exactly how many aircraft residents had died, but confirmed that no residents were killed in the crash.

“The crews arrived on site to find several houses and cars in flames,” said Eddy at a press conference. Firefighters were able to suppress the flames, but at least 10 houses were badly damaged and a vehicle block were completely mutilated – according to the film material from the scene at least a dozen.

At least eight residents were injured, all with minor injuries, said Eddy. One was taken to the hospital while the others were treated in a nearby evacuation center for minor injuries.

“There is aircraft everywhere,” said Eddy, naming the scene a “gigantic rubble field”.

The smell of jet fuel and burned wood was still overwhelming in Murphy Canyon, even blocked by the crash and hours later. A house with a family had a solid, charred hole on one side, while the nearby cars were almost completely flattened.

But the damage in the entire neighborhood was sporadic.

A house had been burned on one side of the street. But on the other hand, the lot seemed untouched.

Nearby was a parked sedan that had now burned beyond the recognition – the bonnet and all four doors that were inflated. On another part of the street, which looked damage-free, the back of a Honda agreement was completely melted through the flames, dripping their metal into a puddle on the floor.

A young resident who drove through the neighborhood with his scooter seemed confused about the scattered damage: “How did it go there from there?” He wondered.

Another resident described the effects of the aircraft as an earthquake. He said he heard a loud boom and when he stepped outside, he saw the plane and the surrounding fire and the debris.

“I cannot give words to describe what this scene looked like, Jet -Fuel, who goes down the street, all at once in flames,” said Scott Wahl, chief of police at San Diego. “It was pretty terrible.”

Raul Campillo, who represents the neighborhood, said he had met some of the military families who were evacuated in extraordinarily challenging conditions under exceptionally challenging conditions.

“I heard stories … about military families who help military families from their houses, jump out of the windows and avoid fire,” said Campillo. “We know that there were many miracles and many heroic actions.”

Wahl said that almost 100 people had been driven out of the crash and that the area for continued investigations and cleanup were closed.

The private aircraft started on Wednesday at 11:15 p.m. from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and, according to the airfields from Flight Tracking Site, stopped folding goods for almost an hour in Wichita. It was led on the way to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, an airport of the general aviation, which belonged to the city of San Diego and was less than three miles from the crash site.

Shortly after 3:40 a.m., the pilot on the radio announced that the aircraft was three miles from landing on the Landahn 28, according to a recording of LiveAtc.net. The pilot has not signaled a problem with the plane and did not issue an emergency call in the records checked by the Times.

The crash was reported at 3:47 a.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board had arrived for examination on Thursday afternoon together with the FAA.

Eliott Simpson, a high -ranking investigator for aviation accidents for the National Transportation Safety Board, has not spoken to possible causes of the crash, but confirmed that the plane first hit the power lines and was damaged by about two miles from where it later fell into a house. He said the Jet fly under “very bad weather conditions”.

The dense fog had rolled up in the area when the plane approached the airport. The visibility was half a mile at 3:55 a.m. and shortly after 4 a.m. in the area around the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which, according to the National Weather Service, is only a few miles north of the crash location.

“We had a sea layer that was deep enough that the clouds got into some of the valleys this morning,” said Adam Roser, meteorologist of the National Weather Service in San Diego. “This one kind of the ocean put into the valley and led to some of these foggy conditions.”

Experts say that the investigators probably examine various aspects of the flight to determine what caused the crash, including the weather conditions, potential pilot fatigue and whether the aircraft's navigation aids work.

“There is never a danger that becomes a causal factor for such a aircraft accident,” said Thomas Anthony, director of the security and security program for aviation at USC. “It is always a combination of several dangers.”

The Executive Airport control tower was not occupied at the time of approaching the flight, so it played down what problems the lack of personnel could have caused because the flights in the night hours on which the tower is closed and ends up. At this point, weather and time are probably the key factors in the study, said Anthony.

“If you leave Teterboro and then land in Wichita for gas, is the question of how long the pilots were awake?” Said Anthony. “It is a crucial problem because one of the human factors that reduce security margins is fatigue. Fatigue undermines our decision -making function and also makes us less likely that we communicate or communicate well.”

“There is also a self -induced pressure at 3:47 a.m. so that it works or get where you want to go,” he added.

In view of the lower visibility near the airport, experts say that the pilot has probably operated under instrument flight rules in which pilots comply with certain regulations that enable them to navigate and control the aircraft under conditions with low visibility. A pilot that takes off after instrument flight rules is “completely safe as long as the plane is qualified and the pilot is qualified for it,” said Robert L. Ditchey, a former navy pilot and an aviation consultant. “It is done around the world every day.”